Tagged Skyscrapers

There are few things more iconic in New York City than its skyline. NY's architectural expert Alexander Meskouris says the buildings that make up this skyline are some of the most famous in the world and have c...

Following the September 11th terrorist attacks in New York City, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani encouraged all construction firms to keep buildings low. Like many other people around the world, he feared t...

Architecture studio Foster + Partners has revealed its design for four skyscrapers called Lusail Towers in Qatar near the studio's Lusail Stadium, which is being built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Designed t...

Located in the heart of Hong Kong’s central business district, the 36-storey Murray Road project designed by UK architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects replaces a multi-storey car park to create an urban o...

Featuring one of the world’s most densely-forested vertical gardens, Urban Forest designed by Koichi Takada Architects, is a 30-storey mixed-use residential high-rise located in the cultural precinct of South...

Heatherwick Studio has completed a 20-storey residential skyscraper in Singapore, which was designed to be "a counterpoint to ubiquitous glass and steel towers". Dubbed EDEN, the 104.5-metre-tall apartment b...

As part of the Skyhive 2020 Skyscraper Challenge, Lissoni Casal Ribeiro‘s Skylines project imagines a vertical garden city for a hypothetical site in NYC. The “Skylines” project is not simply a skyscrape...

Swiss-based architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron and Canadian architects Quadrangle have unveiled plans for a super-skinny skyscraper at the northwest corner of Bay and Bloor in Toronto, that will rise 32...

A proposed Brancusi-shape-inspired tower in Manhattan is on the way to revolutionize the world of art and architecture. After the series of ultra-slender skyscrapers under construction on the billionaires’ ro...

An angular platform protruding from the 100th floor of Kohn Pedersen Fox's Hudson Yards skyscraper is the "highest outdoor observation deck" in the western hemisphere. The 345-meter-high Edge observation deck ...

The hottest high-rise skyscrapers to visit Over the years, architecture and our needs are more and more demanding. We want the best, the nicest and the tallest buildings to be located in our city, so we can ta...

MVRDV has begun construction on Downtown One, a 140-meter tall mixed-use skyscraper in Tirana that will become Albania’s tallest building. The most striking element of the 37-storey tower is its relief of can...

Foster + Partners has unveiled 'The Tulip',  a 305.3-meter tall tower topped with a viewpoint and rotating gondolas which is planned to be built alongside the Gherkin in London. Deriving its name from its ...

Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed plans of the 112 meter-high Mercury Tower, conceived for Paceville on the northern coast of Malta, which would be the country's tallest building. Established as a cluster of h...

Danish architecture firm 3XN has unveiled the Grove Towers, a 77.000 sqm residential and mixed use project in Mumbai, inspired by the Indian nature. Just as clusters of mangrove stalks seemingly braid toget...